History of the London Stage and Its Famous Players (1576-1903): With 10 Portraits Engraved on CopperGeorge Routledge and Sons, 1904 - 557 oldal |
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19. oldal
... things that I never saw before , for I saw women act , a thing I never saw before , though I have heard that it hath been sometimes used in London , ' and they performed it with as good grace , action , gesture , and whatsoever ...
... things that I never saw before , for I saw women act , a thing I never saw before , though I have heard that it hath been sometimes used in London , ' and they performed it with as good grace , action , gesture , and whatsoever ...
52. oldal
... things theatrical , a reaction from the eagerness with which they had been enjoyed at the Restoration , it would be useless to discuss , but for some years previously there had been a great falling off in public patronage . Something of ...
... things theatrical , a reaction from the eagerness with which they had been enjoyed at the Restoration , it would be useless to discuss , but for some years previously there had been a great falling off in public patronage . Something of ...
59. oldal
... thing but satisfactory ; the national passion for theatrical amusements , which had been one of the most marked features of the reigns of Elizabeth and the two first Stuart kings , burst forth with something of its old enthusiasm during ...
... thing but satisfactory ; the national passion for theatrical amusements , which had been one of the most marked features of the reigns of Elizabeth and the two first Stuart kings , burst forth with something of its old enthusiasm during ...
98. oldal
... things dramatic obtained . After Macready , Bunn again . In 1844 he engaged Charles Kean , who since his début seventeen years before had been gaining fame and fortune , for a series of performances , which almost rivalled the successes ...
... things dramatic obtained . After Macready , Bunn again . In 1844 he engaged Charles Kean , who since his début seventeen years before had been gaining fame and fortune , for a series of performances , which almost rivalled the successes ...
102. oldal
... thing in tragedy the Sadler's Wells manager ever did . His address to Astarte had in it a ring of pathetic passion that he seldom rose to , and the declamatory speeches were given with a power of elocution that one never hears nowadays ...
... thing in tragedy the Sadler's Wells manager ever did . His address to Astarte had in it a ring of pathetic passion that he seldom rose to , and the declamatory speeches were given with a power of elocution that one never hears nowadays ...
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History of the London Stage and Its Famous Players (1576-1903) Henry Barton Baker Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2015 |
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166. oldal - AN opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses, and keep up an indolent attention in the audience. Common sense, however, requires, that there should be nothing in the scenes and machines, which may appear childish and absurd. How would the wits of King Charles's time have laughed to have seen Nicolini exposed to a tempest in robes of ermine, and sailing in an open boat upon a sea of pasteboard? What a field of raillery would they...
487. oldal - You would have thought the very windows spake, So many greedy looks of young and old Through casements darted their desiring eyes Upon his visage, and that all the walls With painted imagery had said at once 'Jesu preserve thee! welcome, Bolingbroke! Whilst he, from one side to the other turning, Bare-headed, lower than his proud steed's neck, Bespake them thus: 'I thank you, countrymen...
40. oldal - Near these a Nursery erects its head, Where queens are formed, and future heroes bred; Where unfledged actors learn to laugh and cry,| Where infant punks their tender voices try, And little Maximins the gods defy.
446. oldal - There is the strangest thing in it that ever I have seen on the stage — the boy Pippo, by Miss Wilton. While it is astonishingly impudent (must be, or it couldn't be done at all), it is so stupendously like a boy, and unlike a woman, that it is perfectly free from offence.
163. oldal - ... occasioned such an undulation, from the voice of every actor, that generally what they said sounded like the gabbling of so many people in the lofty aisles in a cathedral.
9. oldal - English bull-dogs, but not without great risk to the dogs, from the horns of the one, and the teeth of the other; and it sometimes happens they are killed upon the spot; fresh ones are immediately supplied in the places of those that are wounded or tired.
5. oldal - Those who go to Paris Garden, the Bell Savage,* or The Theatre, to behold bear baiting, interludes or fence play, must not account of any pleasant spectacle unless first they pay one penny at the gate, another at the entry of the scaffold, and a third for a quiet standing.
167. oldal - Every limb, and every finger, contributes to the part he acts, insomuch that a deaf man might go along with him in the sense of it. There is scarce a beautiful posture in an old statue which he does not plant himself in, as the different circumstances of the story give occasion for it.
166. oldal - At length the audience grew tired of understanding half the opera ; and therefore, to ease themselves entirely of the fatigue of thinking, have so ordered it at present, that the whole opera is performed in an unknown tongue.
26. oldal - Now ye shall have three ladies walk to gather flowers, and then we must believe the stage to be a garden. By and by we hear news of shipwreck in the same place, and then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock. Upon the back of that comes out a hideous monster, with fire and smoke, and then the miserable beholders are bound to take it for a cave. While in the meantime two armies fly in, represented with four swords and bucklers, and then what hard heart will not receive it for a pitched field?